Transgression of powers. Text of the section: current and prior versions.

Every citing reference in the corpus: 9 court opinions and 0 Attorney General opinions. Counts include the section's pre-1981 designation (§ 24), era-gated by the renumbering crosswalk.

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• Access Independent Health Services, Inc., d/b/a Red River Women's Clinic. et al. v. Wrigley, et al., 2025 ND 199 (2025, per curiam) · quotes the provision
  • ¶ 89: “…nary power to make all such laws as are necessary to a proper preservation of public security, order, health, morality and justice. This power is called the police power."). To reinforce the exclusion of the rights declared in Article I from the police power, Section 20 of that Article provides: "To guard against transgressions of the high powers which we have delegated, we declare that everything in this article is excepted out of the general powers of government and shall forever rem…”
• Riemers v. O'Halloran, et al., 2004 ND 79 (2004, Neumann, J.) · quotes the provision
  • ¶ 5: “…y not be altered, revoked or repealed by the legislative assembly; nor shall any citizen or class of citizens be granted privileges or immunities which upon the same terms shall not be granted to all citizens."). Finally, Riemers relies on N.D. Const. art. I, § 20, asserting "everything in Article I is 'excepted out of the general powers of government and shall forever remain inviolate.' "…”
• State v. Miller, 1964 ND 34 (1964, Erickstad, J.)

• Sturre v. Levi, 2016 ND 6 (2016, per curiam)
• Butterfield v. Levi, 2015 ND 294 (2015, per curiam)

• John v. State, 1968 ND 33 (1968, Paulson, J.)
• State v. Norton, 1934 ND 48 (1934, Burke, J.) · quotes the provision
  • “…bsequent action. If the position of the appellant be correct, then it would be a question whether the people themselves could change the qualifications for jurors. If the jury of to-day must in all respects be identical with the jury of territorial days, then section 24 of the Constitution removes section 7 of the Constitution from legislative action, and there is no way whatever for the Legislature to change the qualifications. As stated in Ex parte Mana, 178 Cal. 213, 172 P. 986, L.…”

• State ex rel. Hughes v. Milhollan, 1923 ND 83 (1923, Christianson, J.)
• State ex rel. Shaw v. Frazier, Governor, 1918 ND 13 (1918, Bruce, J.)

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